the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

Sect. l] Chapters XIII. l—XIV. 2 31
that they should have forgiveness and length f. 7. And I
went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan,
to the south of the west of Hermon : I read their petition till
I fell asleep. 8. And behold a dream came to me, and visions
fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, '"and
a voice came bidding (me)"' to tell it to the sons of heaven, and
reprimand them. 9. And when I awaked, I came unto them,
and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in ^Abels-
jail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces
covered, 10. And I recounted before them all the visions
which I had seen in slgep, and I began to speak the words of
righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
XIV. 1. The book of the words of righteousness, and of the
reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command
of the Holy Great One in that vision. 2. I saw in my
sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the
breath of my mouth :
passage :
' Enoch . . . cum
which the Great One has given to men to
esset homo,
legatione ad angelog fungebatur et
translatus est et oonservatur usque
nunc testis iudicii Dei, quoniam augeli
quidam transgressi deciderunt in terram
in indicium.' 7. 'Waters of Dan.
This river is one of the tributfiries
of the Jordan, and is called 'the
little Jordan' in Jos. Ant, v. 3. 1;
viii. 8. 4. This place—from pi 'to
judge '.—is chosen because its name is
eigniiioant of the subject the writer
is dealing with, i. e. the judgement of
the angels. South of the west of
Hermon. G* reads ' south of Hermon
of the west'. I read, gmq prefix
' and'. 8. To tell , . . and re-
primand (E). G* = ' Tell ... to reprimand'.
Sona of heaven. See 6^^ note.
9. 'Abelsjall is probably a corruption
of 'A/SciXT^r);, a town in the Antilibanus,
which could be loosely described as
lying between Lebanon and Senir, i. e.
Hermon. There was a play of words
in the original. The angels were
mourning (P^DN) in Abilene (p^JiaX).
SenSser, i. e. Senir, a name of Hermon
(Deut. 3") or a part of it, Cant. 4«.
10. Before them. G^ transposes before
'and'. 'Reoounted {m-fiyyeiXa G^)
E = ' spake '. And to reprimand
(E). G^ = ' reprimanding'. In 1 Cor.
6' St. Paul speaks of Christians as
having hereafter to judge the angels.
XIV. 1. This verse gives the title
of the section 12-16, On the original
order see note on p. 27. The book
of the words. So q G^. In q the
demonstrative, i.e. the article, has been
prefixed to the word ' book '- The
other MSS. of E = ' this book is the
word'. Holy Great One (G«). E
' Holy and Great One '. XIV. 2—
XVI. 2. The Vision. 2. And with
the breath of my mouth. So G*, save
that it omits ' and '. E differs, but by
a slight emendation in accordance with
G^ and 84^ we arrive at this reading.
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